(vol. 30 of "Mayer-Rothschild's Library"). 1906 (3 marks). Economic regions of the world" (I attempt to bring them together):

Telegraph Foreign Trade Turnover (imports + exports) 1900 billion marks Coal Mining (1900) million tons Pig Iron Mining million tons. Gold Mining (1900) thousand kilograms Number of Spindles in Cotton Industry (1900) million. Number of Sheep million. Wool Production million kg.

Lines thousand km. Telegrams (million)

520.2 168.9 40.9 250.8 14.6 8.2 26.0 89.1 214.4

313.3 121 24.8 249.4 9.4 279.9 51.2 158.6 447.0

171.8 20 3.3 16.1 2.9 36.0 7.0 62.4 191.1

60.7 17 2.4 8.3 0.02 12.4 1.8 {1} 175 59.0}

526.8 79 13.8 245.6 14.0 131.6 19.5 143.5 438.1

85.3 770.2 40.9 468.1 105.5 628.5 1349.6

2.5 0.1 0.5 2.7

87.8 770.3 41.4 470.8

* See V. I. Lenin. Works, 4th ed., vol. 22, pp. 259-260. Ed.

1) "Other countries of the world" (i.e., "East Asian" region plus the remainder).


Colonial possessions. R. Kälwer defines them thus (p. 90):

Germany Million inhabitants 2.6 sq. km. (million) 12.0 10.96 50.0 2.0 37.9 2.4 19.0 0.2 0.1

France Holland ... Belgium Denmark

Italy Spain Portugal Great Britain United States of America 0.5 (up to Tripoli!!) 0.7 0.2 0.3 2.1 7.3 28.6 355.4 0.3 8.6

The author assigns to the "Central European region" all of Europe except England and Russia.

"Not accounted for," i.e., not distributed by regions, among other things, Afghanistan, Persia, Arabia, in Africa Abyssinia, Morocco (the author is behind the times!!! the booklet was published in 1906!!!), and others.

The development of the railway network across these five regions for 1890 and 1913 (see the principal figures below*) will be:

1890: 1913:

{

Central Europe 166.2 - 268.9 + 102.7

British Empire 107.3 - 207.8 + 100.5

Russian Empire 32.4 - 78.1 + 45.7

(Asia without col- East Asian
onies) region 3.3 - 27.5 + 24.2

America (without colonies) 308.1 - 521.9 + 213.8

* See the present volume, pp. 462-463. Ed.

= 617.3 1 104.2

